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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

James Bulger killer denied parole

Jon Venables (pictured in 1993) was jailed for two years in July 2010

Jon Venables, one of the killers of James Bulger, has been denied parole.

A three-member Parole Board chaired by a judge has made its decision, which has been communicated to Venables and the Bulger family.

Venables was aged 10 when he and friend Robert Thompson abducted and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Bootle, Merseyside in 1993.

The toddler was beaten with bricks and iron bars and his body left on a railway line.

Venables had been released on licence in 2001 after serving his sentence for killing James Bulger.

But he was jailed for two years in July 2010 after pleading guilty to downloading and distributing indecent images of children.

James's mother, Denise Fergus, wrote on Twitter: "good news all just heard venables is NOT getting released xxx".

A Parole Board spokesman said: "The Parole Board has now completed its review of the continued detention of Jon Venables in order to make recommendations to the Secretary of State as to his suitability for a move to open prison conditions or direct his release.

"It is the policy of the board not to comment on or confirm its decisions or reasons in individual cases."

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